What’s wrong with saffron education, asks VP, pans ‘Macaulay system’ | India News – Times of India
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HARIDWAR: Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu called for Indians to “give up their colonial mindset” and instead “take pride in their own identity.” Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the South Asian Institute of Peace and Reconciliation at the Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya in Haridwar, he said, “Education in English-medium schools has given rise to a small class of aristocrats.”
He denounced the “Macaulay system of education, which imposed English as the medium of instruction” and said, “It immensely harmed the country. We must reject it.” He claimed that India’s culture, science, and traditional wisdom were considered “inferior” and “were left out of the educational system”. “This slowed our growth as a nation. A large number of people have been deprived of educational opportunities due to a foreign language being the medium of instruction,” he said.
“We are accused of saffronising education, but then what is wrong with saffron? We have believed in the welfare of all (sarve bhavantu sukhinah) and considered the whole world as one family (vasudhaiva kutumbakam). Even when India was at the peak of prosperity and strength, and when our universities, Nalanda and Takshshila, attracted students from all over the world, we never attacked any country due to our genuine faith in peace for all humanity,” he said.
Naidu expressed happiness over the fact that the New Education Policy laid emphasis on the promotion of regional languages. “We should first and foremost promote and propagate our mother tongue,” he said.
“I am not against learning foreign languages but our mother tongue must be promoted first,” he added.
He denounced the “Macaulay system of education, which imposed English as the medium of instruction” and said, “It immensely harmed the country. We must reject it.” He claimed that India’s culture, science, and traditional wisdom were considered “inferior” and “were left out of the educational system”. “This slowed our growth as a nation. A large number of people have been deprived of educational opportunities due to a foreign language being the medium of instruction,” he said.
“We are accused of saffronising education, but then what is wrong with saffron? We have believed in the welfare of all (sarve bhavantu sukhinah) and considered the whole world as one family (vasudhaiva kutumbakam). Even when India was at the peak of prosperity and strength, and when our universities, Nalanda and Takshshila, attracted students from all over the world, we never attacked any country due to our genuine faith in peace for all humanity,” he said.
Naidu expressed happiness over the fact that the New Education Policy laid emphasis on the promotion of regional languages. “We should first and foremost promote and propagate our mother tongue,” he said.
“I am not against learning foreign languages but our mother tongue must be promoted first,” he added.
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